TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The global pharmaceutical industry is pouring billions of dollars into developing treatments for rare diseases, which once drew little interest from major drugmakers but now point the way toward a new era of innovative therapies and big profits.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - The global pharmaceutical industry is pouring billions of dollars into developing treatments for rare diseases, which once drew little interest from major drugmakers but now point the way toward a new era of innovative therapies and big profits.

23:29 Military copter crash off Florida leaves 11 presumed dead : Seven Marines and four soldiers were presumed dead after an Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed during a nighttime training mission off the Florida coast, where some human remains have washed ashore, U.S. military officials said on Wednesday.

"We're not really honest with each other," filmmaker Ken Burns said. Burns, who was 11 when his mother died of breast cancer, is executive producer of the film, directed by Barak Goodman. The film airs over three consecutive nights beginning on March 30 and is inspired by Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee's Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same title. Starting at its most elemental — how cancer got its ...

Jimmy Greenspoon, the keyboardist for rock band Three Dog Night, has died. The keyboardist joined the rock band in 1968 and had been working with them until last October, when he took a medical leave of absence to pursue treatment for metastatic melanoma. Jimmy cared so much about excellence in the music and always made sure we had what we needed on stage and in the recording studio.

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On your next weight-loss attempt, ditch the fad diet and instead try to get by with a little help from your friends. If you would love a local exercise buddy, post on Facebook that you're looking for someone to exercise with, and mention the time you're available and some locations you have in mind. Connect with your distant friends on fitness mobile apps so you can track and motivate each other ...

23:29 Military copter crash off Florida leaves 11 presumed dead : Seven Marines and four soldiers were presumed dead after an Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed during a nighttime training mission off the Florida coast, where some human remains have washed ashore, U.S. military officials said on Wednesday.

Daniel von Bargen, the talented character actor perhaps best known for playing George Costanza's imbecilic boss Mr. Kruger during the last season of "Seinfeld," has died. He was 64. Von Bargen, who also stood out as Commandant Edwin Spangler on the ABC sitcom "Malcolm in the Middle," died Sunday after a long illness, his friend, actor Bob Colonna, said. Cincinnati TV station WLWT also reported ...

The number one reason people say they don't exercise is: no time. Here are a few hacks for squeezing the exercise into the busiest of schedules. I can't seem to organize myself enough to find and sign up for exercise classes, so YouTube is my personal exercise class tool.

(CNN) — Daniel von Bargen, the talented character actor perhaps best known for playing George Costanza’s imbecilic boss Mr. Kruger during the last season of Seinfeld, has died. He was 64. Von Bargen, who also stood out as Commandant Edwin Spangler on the ABC sitcom Malcolm in the Middle, died Sunday after a long illness, […]

AstraZeneca is trailing three competitors with drugs that target lung cancer by harnessing the body’s immune system, according to a report by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. While Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. was approved to sell its Opdivo treatment for the condition March 4, AstraZeneca’s rival compound, MEDI4736, is still in trials and probably won’t be submitted to U.S. regulators until next year.

J.G. is a lawyer in his early 30s. He’s a fast talker and has the lean, sinewy build of a distance runner. His choice of profession seems preordained, as he speaks in fully formed paragraphs, his thoughts organized by topic sentences.

(Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File). FILE - In this Tuesday, March 24, 2015, file photo, executive producer Ken Burns attends a preview screening of "Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies," at the Time Warner Center, in New York. The three-part se...

NEW YORK, March 13, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A work group of physicians from leading academic medical centers across the country, including NYU Langone Medical Center, has developed new quality measures for the detection and treatment of childhood obstructive sleep apnea...

At the heart of every scandal around drug trials in India has been one question: did the research subject really know what he or she was getting into? For the first time, we might have a clear answer, thanks to a cool new innovation in medical research.

Jimmy Greenspoon, the keyboardist for rock band Three Dog Night, has died. The keyboardist joined the rock band in 1968 and had been working with them until last October, when he took a medical leave of absence to pursue treatment for metastatic melanoma. Jimmy cared so much about excellence in the music and always made sure we had what we needed on stage and in the recording studio.

MARSEILLE, France -- MI-mAbs, a new immunotechnology center designed to accelerate the development of new immunotherapy antibodies against cancer and inflammatory disease, today announced the signature ...

"We truly believe that our employees are our best asset and are honored to be recognized by the Bay Area News Group as a Top Workplace," said Bonnie H. Anderson, president and chief executive officer of Veracyte. The Bay Area News Group, which owns the San Jose Mercury News, Oakland Tribune, Contra Costa Times and other media properties, ranked Veracyte as one of the top small businesses to work ...

News and executives will be on the eighth floor, and advertising and business functions will be on the seventh. City economic development officials say the city's downtown has enjoyed a rebirth with 90 tech businesses and more considering moving in.